Touching the Elephant
Kendall LambNature writing, memoir, poetry and prose from a meaning-making marine biologist.
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God of the Untamed Beasts
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Dear Friends,
I am ragged. Tattered and weary. I will not pretend otherwise. But even here, dragging myself in such an undignified and awkward man...
Writing Through the Smoke
The smoke is a thick blanket here. I could swear it has gotten inside my skull— swirling and gauzy and gray, the embers settling into ash in the folds of my brain like opium, numbing me from all the beauty on the other side of the wool. Eve...
Magnificent Frigatebird
Gloucester, MA 2004
Jay Frontero was not a man who was easily impressed.
Not by people, not by a full, spinning breach right off the bow, not by spectacular bubble feeding events, and certainly not by young, inexperienced interns working...
Slack Tide
This poem is dedicated to anyone who has ever felt completely disoriented by a widening gap between themselves and their partner. I see you, beloved. You haven’t lost your pull. Sometimes we are just meant to spin into a new orbit, to see s...
The Dreaming Place
Hi friends,
It’s been a little while since I’ve shared a poem. This one came from a wide-awake dream. Life is so heavy, and life is so damn beautiful. Here’s to the alchemy of it all.
Kendall
Photo by Mike Labrum on Unsplash
The D...
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Nature writer, marine biologist, and mother. I braid science, absurdity, spirituality, and the daily astonishments of raising a child. Writing a memoir about love and whales.
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